Minnesota State Archives

Here's the April 2024 list
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm from our esteemed archival cataloging staff that includes newly cataloged materials, newly digitized collections or parts of collections, and recently updated finding aids. Newly added accessions this month include the Agriculture and Rural Life Oral History Project Interviews; the Capitol Area Library Consortium Records; the Freshwater Society Records; and the Paul Anders Ogren Legislative Correspondence.

State Archives staff is particularly pleased that several Faribault State School and Hospital private diaries were digitized. Check out the link to the digital content. And enjoy these selected images of the facility.

Other collections with additions or added digital content include the Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Minnesota Records; the Jonathan Carver Papers; the Governor Alexander Ramsey Gubernatorial Records; the KSTP-AM World War II Sound Recordings; the Lyon County Independent School District No. 411 (Balaton) Records; the Mike Lynch Papers; several additions to the MNHS Institutional Archives; the Stearns County Probate Court Case Files and Index; the Steele County Probate Court Case Files; the Transportation Department Published Records and Reports; the Unity Church Records; the Waseca County Probate Court Case Files; and the City of Madelia Watonwan County) Records.

In addition there are many newly encoded finding aids that are now available online for the first time.

Check out the March 2024 acquisitions added to the State Archives collection: https://www.mnhs.org/preservation/state-archives/collection.

Here is the March 2024 update from our archival collections cataloging staff that includes newly cataloged collections, newly digitized collections or parts of collections, and recently updated finding aids: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm. We are particularly pleased to announce that the Stillwater State Prison Photographs of Inmates (Glass Plate Negatives Collection is now completely digitized and online! Besides the inmate photographs, there are a number of "miscellaneous" scenes, a few of which are pictured here.

Check out the February 2024 acquisitions added to the State Archives collection: https://www.mnhs.org/preservation/state-archives/collection. And here is the February 2024 update from our archival collections cataloging staff that includes newly cataloged collections, newly digitized collections or parts of collections, and recently updated finding aids: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm. Please note City of West Saint Paul city council minutes and agenda packets, dated 1889-1993, were recently digitized and published via our library catalog: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr02581.xml. Also, digitized and published, are Pharmacy Board minutes dated 1887-2017: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr02338.xml

Here is the May 2023 update from our cataloging staff about new and updated finding aids and catalog records for the Manuscripts collection and the State Archives collection: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm. Featured this month is the manuscript collection of the Land Stewardship Project organization. And for you F. Scott Fitzgerald fans, check out the recently digitized documents regarding the author's World War I military servicehttp://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00980/pdfa/gr00980-00001.pdf , and his World War I bonus application http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/gr00401/pdfa/gr00401-00001.pdf. Such lovely handwriting!

The State Archives of the Minnesota Historical Society is pleased to announce our website has been significantly updated and enhanced! So please take a look at it https://www.mnhs.org/preservation/state-archives, update your bookmarks, and let us know what you think. All of the web pages are new, better organized, with navigation of the website now more intuitive.

State Archives staff welcome your questions or comments about the website, so please email us at our general email: [email protected]. Thank you.

Here is the December 2022 update from our cataloging staff about new and updated finding aids and catalog records for the Sound & Visual collection, Manuscripts collection and the State Archives collection: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm. Featured this month are Green Giant Company film advertisements that have been digitized and are available online for viewing.

Here is the November 2022 update from our cataloging staff about new and updated finding aids and catalog records for the Manuscripts collection and the State Archives collection: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm. Featured this month are the results of a multi-year effort to convert paper inventories to digital inventories of sets of records in the Hubert H. Humphrey manuscript collection.

Who is this man and why is he important? Pictured is Napoleon R. Nadeau, and his photograph collection is preserved in the State Archives collection. Read more about Nadeau and his photographs featured in the September/October 2022 update from our cataloging staff about new and updated finding aids and catalog records for the Manuscripts collection and the State Archives collection: http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/index-WhatsNew.htm.